The effect made by Antonio Pompa-Baldi's meltingly beautiful performance of Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata was striking.
The New York Times, James R. Oestreich
Antonio Pompa-Baldi displayed his formidable gifts. Here was the real thing. Pompa-Baldi is a probing cultivated musician..He also has marvelous fingers that produced glittering passage-work...He tosses off the most difficult pianistic feats with great panache...he imbued every phrase with integrity, beauty and sincerity. He has an excellent sound, a natural rubato and had perfect control of each voice. He also had a wonderful balance of emotion and intellect.
New York Concert Review, Howard Aibel (after a recital at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall)
"Pompa-Baldi demonstrated both brilliance and structural insight…He also showed himself to be an ensemble player of considerable sensitivity, seeming to relish the partnership of other instruments."
Boston Globe, Ellen Pfeifer
Pompa-Baldi knew how to suspend time, letting a phrase hover and expand in poised inner stillness... (He) relied on warmth, exquisite taste and... arresting technique.
Los Angeles Times, Chris Pasles
Pompa-Baldi is a superb musician. His technical assurance and authoritative manner recall Earl Wild.
Spotlight in Miami, Lawrence Berman
Charleston Gazette, David Williams (after a performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto)
Antonio Pompa-Baldi was a revelation of the Duszniki Chopin Festival. He conquered the audience with his renditions of Liszt Second Ballade and Schumann's Phantasiestucke, played with immense richness of timbre and variety of moods. Our delight was complete when he played the Brahms-Paganini Variations with daemonic energy.
Ruch Muzyczny Warsaw, Józef Kanski.
The Italian pianist is a musical marvel. Pompa-Baldi never missed a note or nuance in a poised and persuasive performance (after the Shostakovich First Piano Concerto with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra)
Special to The Denver Post, Sabine Kortals
Antonio Pompa-Baldi made his Carnegie Hall debut (), displayed a fluid technique and a fiery Romantic temperament.
The New York Times, Jeremy Eichler (after a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 at Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium)
Ceaseless inspiration might describe Pompa-Baldi. His speed and precision are striking; his expressive power even more so.
Peoria Journal Star, Gary A. Panetta
A potential pianistic messiah.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wayne Lee Gay
His performances of the Prokofiev Third Concerto were awesomely assured, and beautifully expressive in the more introspective parts.
Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News.
Pompa-Baldi went from strength to strength...with laserlike focus, lyrical poise wedded to blazing virtuosity.
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Lawrence A Johnson
Pompa-Baldi possesses a magical touch, rich in a thousand of nuances, a spectacular technique and an amazing finesse.
La Provincia, Como, Italy, Maria Terraneo
Pompa-Baldi assembled the intuitive genius and the science of imagination with the most inspired reflection, sustained by the strongest technical rigor.
La Montagne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a dazzling piano virtuoso, a magnificent artist who demonstrated a deep maturity of expression. His recital was memorable: we heard an interpreter who has wonderful taste, astonishing memory, prodigious sense of color, formidable technique.
Luis Enrique Julia, El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico.